Turbo japonicus

Turbo japonicus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Turbinidae.[1][2][3]

Turbo japonicus
Drawing with an apertural view of a shell of Turbo japonicus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Turbinidae
Genus: Turbo
Species:
T. japonicus
Binomial name
Turbo japonicus
Reeve, 1848
Synonyms[1]
  • Turbo (Marmarostoma) japonicus Reeve, 1848
  • Turbo cernicus G. B. Sowerby III, 1896

Description

(Described as Turbo cernicus) The solid, subventricose, imperforate shell has an ovate conic shape. Its color pattern is yellowish, longitudinally flammulated. The acute spire is elevated. The convex whorls are sloping above, minutely obliquely striate, encircled by wide flattened ribs, alternating with smaller. The body whorl is obtusely angulated above, lightly depressed above the angle, and scarcely canaliculate. The aperture is circular. The acute lip is scalloped. The thick columella is convex, slightly arcuate and slightly produced at base, and longitudinally plicated.

The operculum is very convex outside. It is green, suffused with bright reddish brown, and conspicuously granulose.[4]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Mauritius and Réunion; also in the Central Pacific.

References
  1. MolluscaBase (2018). Turbo japonicus Reeve, 1848. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216370 on 2019-01-06
  2. Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2003). A Conchological Iconography: The Family Turbinidae, Subfamily Turbininae, Genus Turbo. Conchbooks, Hackenheim Germany.
  3. Fukuda H. (2017). Nomenclature of the horned turbans previously known as Turbo cornutus [Lightfoot], 1786 and Turbo chinensis Ozawa & Tomida, 1995 (Vetigastropoda: Trochoidea: Turbinidae) from China, Japan and Korea. Molluscan Research. DOI: 10.1080/13235818.2017.1314741.
  4. G.W. Tryon (1888), Manual of Conchology X; Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia


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